Land, Title and Boundaries

Section 51(1) of the Land Titles Act stopped new prescriptive rights the day your parcel converted. Section 44(1) preserved everything that had already matured. The twenty and forty year periods in section 31 of the Real Property Limitations Act, why a warning letter is not an interruption, why there is no such thing as a right to light, and why no Ontario statute extinguishes an easement for non-use.

An SRPR is defined in section 28 of O. Reg. 216/10 and excludes condominiums and townhouses. Title insurance is capped at a stated sum by section 139(1) of the Insurance Act. Ontario’s land surveyors say the two are “mutually exclusive products”. What each one does, what the LTCQ qualifier on your Toronto title means, and the $410 procedure that actually settles a boundary.